Quote (Thor123422 @ 27 Mar 2020 03:37)
If you use faith you can be certain of literally any proposition.
Faith is a word with many nuances. One biblical definition is "(...) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." The gospels and letters in the New Testement can produce faith, which can also be translated as assurence and trust. Trust in the historical significance of 4 separate accounts of the events described. Now that might not be enough for most people.
You see faith in everyday life, faith in your wife or husband. Faith in economics, which is pretty fragile under the current events.
Other perspectives and realities that helps build the foundation of faith besides the gospel and personal hope of each individual, is by looking at the natural world while applying science, philosophy and theology as a mean of translating what's before our eyes.
I'm sure you're familiar with the cosmological and fine-tuning arguments, so let's skip further discussion on those.
What I'm trying to argue is that faith is not blind as you seem to apply. Faith is drawn towards truth. One might adopt a highly sceptical "scientific" approach to the world, being faithless towards reality itself, because of the barriers and methods one is using. I would say that as a book produces faith in my heart that someone wrote that book, so does the DNA of the human body produce faith that intelligence was behind. That doesn't seem to satisfy most who are atheist or agnostic.
Who can tell what makes a man take the leap of faith. Personally I went from being sceptical myself to where I'm standing now, unable to have faith in the religion of atheism. I think we fall prey to our own ego's, wanting to be the masters of our choices. Apathy, blindness, hatred, all sorts of things clouds the mind. Only help from outside is able to lift the curtain to the Light of this world. Jesus Christ.